wxWidgets Checkbox Tooltips

By david, on June 13th, 2014

I need to post this so that no one else experiences the same pain with wxWidgets (2.9.4). Tooltips weren’t working for me when I hovered over checkboxes. This has bothered me for about 2 years and Google doesn’t seem to throw up a solution.

We are using wxWidgets for FreeDV, as we needed cross platform support. That has actually worked out pretty well, with Linux, Win32, OSX and recently FreeBSD working just fine.

So, the Tooltip problem is something to do with the checkbox being inside a StaticBox. Here is what works and what doesn’t for me: